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    Fittingness is distinct from moral or strategic appropria... — Carmelics
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    Fittingness is distinct from moral or strategic appropriateness

    AestheticsMoral Responsibility
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    • 1.Amusement at a funny joke may be fitting even if the joke has sexist content that makes the amusement morally inappropriate
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    • 2.Amusement at a funny joke may be fitting even if expressing amusement is costly to self-interest because observers may form a negative opinion of the amused agent
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of proper emotional response in the Nicomachean Ethics treats fittingness as constitutively involving moral considerations about what a virtuous person would feel.
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    • 2.If the virtuous person serves as the standard for fitting emotional response, then amusement at a sexist joke fails the fittingness criterion on the same grounds it fails the moral one.
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    • 1.D'Arms and Jacobson's own 'moralist' opponents argue that moral facts about an object partially constitute the aesthetic object being evaluated, collapsing the distinction.
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    • 2.If the sexist content of a joke is part of what makes it the joke it is, then amusement at that content is not fitting because the joke as a whole is not genuinely funny but merely cruel.
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    Our first distinctions pertain to three varieties of cognitive rationality for emotions: rationality as fittingness, rationality as warrant and rationality as coherence. The dominant view on emotions is that they are representations of core relational themes or formal objects. Therefore, a first dimension of assessment for rationality concerns whether or not such core relational themes/formal objects are instantiated. We may for instance say that fear is rational in terms of fittingness just in
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